2.4 GPA and 1190 SAT/24 ACT, please help me, please

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@austinmshauri

SUNY college tuition isn’t less than $5500/year either. It’s ~$10k. The federal student plus work earnings would cover it, but not the loan by itself.

I see that Univ. of MN is $14k/year. If the parents won’t contribute to tuition then OP would either have to start at a cc (~$5k/year) and work to save enough to transfer, work full-time to earn enough to cover what the student loan doesn’t at the Univ. of MN, or take classes as s/he can afford them. If the parents can pay $5k and OP can earn $3-4k over the summer then the federal student loan would be enough to cover tuition at the Univ. of MN.

MN is really more like 18K/year for tuition and fees when you add in all the surcharges for the college of science and engineering. (My son is there now, so I have a fresh bill to go off of. ) The bigger problem is, the OP would never get in right now. The acceptance rate for CSE was something like 16% last year. He HAS to bust his but at CC for a couple years first for financial AND academic reasons.